Finance Contract Job Trends in Newport

Financial
South Wales > Newport

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Newport. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +15
Contract jobs citing Finance 8 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 10.00% 15.79% 13.92%
As % of the General category 25.00% 21.43% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £296 £428 -
25th Percentile £446 £433 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% +11.25% -38.46%
75th Percentile £538 £461 -
90th Percentile £630 £468 -
South Wales median daily rate £530 £464 £425
% change year-on-year +14.29% +9.12% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £85.28
25th Percentile £64.50 - £85.70
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £86.40
75th Percentile £68.50 - £87.10
90th Percentile - - £87.52
South Wales median hourly rate £43.96 £13.08 £51.95
% change year-on-year +236.09% -74.82% +57.41%

All General Skills
Newport

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 32 14 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 40.00% 73.68% 70.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 19
10th Percentile £225 £234 £184
25th Percentile £446 £385 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £444 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% +10.94% -27.27%
75th Percentile £556 £479 £459
90th Percentile £699 £511 £625
South Wales median daily rate £495 £391 £390
% change year-on-year +26.52% +0.32% -15.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 17
10th Percentile £25.60 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £31.00 £17.00 £20.12
Median hourly rate £52.50 £19.00 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year +176.32% -25.08% -47.31%
75th Percentile £55.00 £21.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £63.10 £22.20 £78.25
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £14.61 £25.60
% change year-on-year +45.45% -42.93% +81.56%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport.

Finance job vacancy trend in Newport

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in Newport

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Newport over the 6 months to 6 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Newport

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Finance

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
1 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Billing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business IT Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Analytics
1 2 (25.00%) Business Case
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
1 2 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (12.50%) AI
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Insight
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) ERP
2 1 (12.50%) ITSM
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (12.50%) Qualitative Research
2 1 (12.50%) Release Management
2 1 (12.50%) Service Management
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) MuleSoft
1 3 (37.50%) OutSystems
1 3 (37.50%) Quadient
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow